Transformative Power of Jesus: Love, Morality, and Freedom
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In terms just of influence I can't imagine anyone else who has that kind of influence, and books have been written on this, and currently there's tremendous influence of Jesus even on people who are in other religions, who are not so sure or they're antagonistic to Christianity as historically understood but are being influenced by the person of Jesus. [00:01:03]
The kingdom of God is where what God once done is done, and in order to understand it you should compare it to your kingdom because you have a kingdom too or a queendom or whatever you person them if you like that better, and your kingdom is exactly the same, it's the range of your effective will. [00:03:28]
Only life in the kingdom of God harmonizes the lives of human beings, and that is why as Jesus taught the way forward is to love God with all your heart soul mind and strength and then you have the ability to love your neighbor as yourself. [00:05:17]
Jesus understood what would make human life work. He understood that the basic problem for human beings is to find a spiritual home in which they can know that they are cared for, eternally cared for, and then from which they can care for others and not spend their whole life just fighting over what to do. [00:06:19]
We cannot get along because we want our way, we want our kingdom to prevail and we cannot find a larger kingdom in which to live together with others, and that is what Jesus brought into human life. See he made clear what morality is and how it can be lived. [00:07:25]
You don't teach a morality by preaching at people, you do it by body language, you do it by subtle suggestions, you do it by example, you do it by who you criticize, you do it by who you laugh at. See that's how morality is taught, that's how it's taught in the home in any situation. [00:08:00]
A morally good person is a person who is intent upon advancing the various goods of human life with which they are effectively in contact, in a manner that respects their relative degrees of importance and the extent to which the actions of the person in question can actually promote the existence and maintenance of these goods. [00:11:32]
Jesus refines his teachings, he doesn't just say love your neighbors yourself, he says love one another as I have loved you, that's different. He says greater love has no one than this that they lay down their lives for their friends. [00:13:15]
If you continue in my word, that is put it into practice, then you really are my apprentices in living in the kingdom, and then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. That's the way it works, you know the truth in a way that sets you free in an interactive relationship with Jesus Christ in the kingdom of God. [00:16:34]
We know a lot of good, but we systematically fail to do it in our individual lives in our society, often in our churches our religious groups it's the same way you find people constantly unable to do it. We have to shift the understanding of Jesus away from someone who is perhaps nice but doesn't really provide knowledge to one who provides us with the most essential knowledge about the most important things in human life. [00:17:16]
He offers us eternal life now and that is open to testing, to questioning, to experimentation, and all we have to do to know the truth that he's talking about is to put it to the test of experience. [00:18:00]
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The kingdom of God is where what God once done is done, and in order to understand it you should compare it to your kingdom because you have a kingdom too or a queendom or whatever you person them if you like that better, and your kingdom is exactly the same, it's the range of your effective will. [00:03:28]
Only life in the kingdom of God harmonizes the lives of human beings, and that is why as Jesus taught the way forward is to love God with all your heart soul mind and strength and then you have the ability to love your neighbor as yourself. [00:05:17]
Jesus understood what would make human life work. He understood that the basic problem for human beings is to find a spiritual home in which they can know that they are cared for, eternally cared for, and then from which they can care for others and not spend their whole life just fighting over what to do. [00:06:19]
We cannot get along because we want our way, we want our kingdom to prevail and we cannot find a larger kingdom in which to live together with others, and that is what Jesus brought into human life. See he made clear what morality is and how it can be lived. [00:07:25]
You don't teach a morality by preaching at people, you do it by body language, you do it by subtle suggestions, you do it by example, you do it by who you criticize, you do it by who you laugh at. See that's how morality is taught, that's how it's taught in the home in any situation. [00:08:00]
A morally good person is a person who is intent upon advancing the various goods of human life with which they are effectively in contact, in a manner that respects their relative degrees of importance and the extent to which the actions of the person in question can actually promote the existence and maintenance of these goods. [00:11:32]
Jesus refines his teachings, he doesn't just say love your neighbors yourself, he says love one another as I have loved you, that's different. He says greater love has no one than this that they lay down their lives for their friends. [00:13:15]
If you continue in my word, that is put it into practice, then you really are my apprentices in living in the kingdom, and then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. That's the way it works, you know the truth in a way that sets you free in an interactive relationship with Jesus Christ in the kingdom of God. [00:16:34]
We know a lot of good, but we systematically fail to do it in our individual lives in our society, often in our churches our religious groups it's the same way you find people constantly unable to do it. We have to shift the understanding of Jesus away from someone who is perhaps nice but doesn't really provide knowledge to one who provides us with the most essential knowledge about the most important things in human life. [00:17:16]
He offers us eternal life now and that is open to testing, to questioning, to experimentation, and all we have to do to know the truth that he's talking about is to put it to the test of experience. [00:18:00]
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